An older woman named Hortense has had a series of unsuccessful marriages that ended due to her unnatural obsession with accidents, deaths, and disappearances. Now, she lives alone in a trailer in Alaska a few minutes from her daughter, who often has her watch her granddaughter. One night, she’s with her granddaughter when she realizes that something is wrong and that she doesn’t normally watch her on Sundays. The realization brings back the memory of her father’s disappearance years before, as a teenager. Hortense was out one night looking for their runaway dog with her father and Uncle Ned in her Alaskan hometown, and they pulled over the car to check the woods for him. She went with Uncle Ned farther in while he waited in the car, but when they headed back after not finding anything, she saw a man on the ground in the woods asking for help. Her uncle told her to keep walking, even when she twisted her ankle, and when they got back to the car her father was gone. The dog returned suddenly and they drove off, thinking maybe he’d wandered away to town.  The next day, her uncle asks the police to look for her father, but they can’t find anything after two searches. Hortense’s ankle is swelling, so he takes her to the clinic. While they wait, Uncle Ned tells her the story of years earlier when he was helping car crash victims on a highway and a biker heard someone saying “help me” from the side of the road. When he didn’t come back after a few minutes, Ned and another biker went to find him and saw him facedown on the ground with something underneath him, sucking at his face. The other biker saw it pulling his guts out through his mouth. Hortense later recalls another story she heard about an emergency relief man who heard something in the woods saying “help me,” and is convinced that “Mr. Help Me” stole her father.  Now, Hortense sits on the ground with the monster creeping towards her down the hall, bending light so it’s never fully visible. She realizes that it disguised itself as her granddaughter to lull her into a false sense of security. It stabbed and paralyzed her with venom, and is now creeping towards her whispering “help me”. She asks if it killed her father, but receives no response. She has a black light in her pocket that she uses to scare the creature off, but even when it’s gone she’s scared to continue living. Eventually she begins to drag herself towards her phone to call for help.